Quotes About Shakespeare's Othello

#1. Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'

Malorie Blackman

#2. Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you write about someone you love, what the hell are you supposed to say about that person? It's much better to have something between you and your main character that grates.

Henning Mankell

#4. Brabantio: "You are a villain!"
Iago: "You are a senator!

William Shakespeare

#5. And what's he then that says I play the villain?

William Shakespeare

#6. Strike on the tinder, ho!
Give me a taper! Call up all my people!
This accident is not unlike my dream:
Belief of it oppresses me already.
Light, I say, light!

William Shakespeare

#7. And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.

Aldous Huxley

#8. I think the sun where he were born drew all such humours from him. - 3.4.26

William Shakespeare

#9. I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.

James Avery

#10. I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear

William Shakespeare

#11. Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

#12. There is magic in the web Shakespeare (Othello, Act 3, Scene 4)

William Shakespeare

#13. But jealous souls will not be answered so.
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealous for they're jealous. It is a monster
Begot upon itself, born on itself.

William Shakespeare

#14. It is the green eyed monster which doth mock.

William Shakespeare

#15. Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.

William Shakespeare

#16. I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.

Kyle MacLachlan

#17. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a
beast!

William Shakespeare

#18. Willow trees, willow trees they remind me of Desdemona
I'm so damned literary
and at the same time the waters rushing past remind
me of nothing

Frank O'Hara

#19. Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article.
Othello, Act III, Scene iii

William Shakespeare

#20. OTHELLO Not Cassio kill'd! then murder's out of tune, And sweet revenge grows harsh. DESDEMONA O, falsely, falsely murder'd!

William Shakespeare

#21. My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but it wasn't Othello. He would talk about it, though, and read Shakespeare to me.

Lupita Nyong'o

#22. Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?

William Shakespeare

#23. Othello is about many different kinds of love: it's about the light, beautiful side of love, and it's about the twisted, darker side of love, and it's about how, if you flip the emotional coin, love can make you do terrible things. (James Earl Jones)

Susannah Carson

#24. When devils will the blackest sins put on
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

William Shakespeare

#25. Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.

Brand Blanshard

#26. 'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.

Andrew Davies

#27. I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

Ian Doescher

#28. They are all but stomachs, and we all but food.
To eat us hungerly, and when they are full,
They belch us.
-Emilia

William Shakespeare

#29. Why, the wrong is but a wrong i'th'world; and having the world for your labour, 'tis a wrong in your own world, and you might quickly make it a right.

William Shakespeare

#30. And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.

William Shakespeare